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Kokila Bahadur Guiana Midwife's Certificate
Kokila Bahadur was working as a midwife on a sugar plantation in Guiana when she saw an ad from the Jersey City Medical Center seeking nurse trainees. This is her Guianese midwife's certificate.

Kokila Bahadur Guianese Nursing Certificate
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.

Poem, "Ramu" Manuscript
This is the original manuscript for Ramu, composed while Moses Bhagwan was imprisoned by the British for his role as an anti-colonial leader, in the youth wing of the Guiana's People's Progressive Party.

Birth Certificate From Uganda
Uganda refugees were not permitted to take much out of the country, so most of the materials that tell their stories are official documents, such as this birth certificate.

Ronikali Merali's certificate of Naturalization to the US
The process of gaining citizenship for Ugandan parolees in the US was long because they were not technically refugees, but were parolees, which did not grant them the same path to citizenship as refugees. This is Ronikali's certificate of naturalization to the US, and feature of a photo of him in 1984 at the age of 34.

Madan Gopal Maragh
Madan Gopal Maragh, a pandit, arrived in Jamaica in 1903 aboard the SS Dahomey from Calcutta, India. This photo is dated around 1947 of him with a Ramayan. He is Savitri Tolan's Grandmother's father.

Maya McCoy's Grandparents, Ernest and Peace Champion, and children
This image is of Maya Mccoy's mother, maternal grandparents and uncle in Jaffna. Maya's family is brought up in her interview for the SAADA Archival Creators Fellowship Project on Ilankai Tamil Feminism. She discusses how her mother's brief stint in Sri Lanka before her family moved abroad helped to shape her worldview such that it left impressions on Maya's politics of solidarity.

Wedding of Ernest and Peace Champion
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Noshir Irani and Shera Irani
Noshir Irani and his mother, Shera Irani, in Mumbai, India. In the interview, Noshir and Teshtar Irani displayed this photograph and Noshir selected it as one of the objects he'd keep in a time capsule.

Zoroastrian Daily Prayers Book
The front cover and title page of the Zoroastrian Daily Prayers book printed in Bombay in 1959. In her oral history interview, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns selected this object as one of the things she'd keep in a time capsule. Roshni shared that she uses this book when she wants to or needs to pray or check up some words and for understanding something or the other. She also shared that Mr.

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